Bassam Al Derazi Design Studio
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Lakum

Client
Lakum Real Estate
Year
2024

Identity for Lakum Real Estate, built on relationships, investment opportunities and sustainable growth, the three ideas underlined in its mission: wordmarks in English and Arabic, a diamond emblem, a repeat pattern and a palette led by deep blue and coral.

Role
Bilingual wordmarks, emblem, visual identity, applications

Lakum Real Estate, لكم العقارية in Arabic, puts its mission in one line: “Our mission is to build relationships and foster investment opportunities to achieve sustainable growth and continuous progress.” The identity is built on the three ideas underlined in it.

Three ideas, three marks

Each idea becomes a mark: an M for relationships, the same M topped by a location pin for investment opportunities, and a rising curve for sustainable growth.

Branding rationales board: the mission statement in deep blue on dusty pink, with relationships, investment opportunities and sustainable growth underlined.
Mission
Branding rationales: three dusty pink marks in pale circles, an M for Relationships, an M topped by a location pin for Investment Opportunities, and a rising curve for Sustainable Growth.
Branding rationales

Into the wordmark

The three marks meet in LAKUM. The K’s sweeping curve is sustainable growth, the M is relationships, and a pin over the M stands for investment opportunities.

Branding construction: LAKUM in dusty pink on deep blue, the K’s curve labelled Sustainable Growth, a faint pin over the M labelled Investment Opportunities, and Relationships under the M.
Branding construction

Wordmarks and emblem

LAKUM and لكم are drawn with the same strokes and arcs. The emblem, titled Diamond from Relations (L), joins two curved strokes into a diamond. Its board adds a line: “We take pride in the close, diamond-strong bonds we share with our clients, which form the very essence of who we are.”

Bilingual wordmarks: LAKUM above لكم in deep blue on white, the two drawn with the same straight strokes and arcs.
Bilingual wordmarks
The Lakum emblem in dusty pink on deep blue: a four-pointed diamond made of two curved strokes, titled Diamond from Relations (L), with a line about diamond-strong bonds with clients.
Emblem

Logo responsiveness

The logo steps down from the bilingual lockup to a compact LKM mark, then to the emblem alone.

Logo responsiveness: the bilingual lockup, a compact LKM mark and the emblem alone, stacked in deep blue on white.
Logo responsiveness

Colour and type

Deep blue takes the largest block, then coral and charcoal, with two greyed blues, dusty pink and off-white. GT America Arabic sets both scripts. The type board shows Management, Real Estate, Venture, Leasing and Investments, and إدارة، عقارات، مشاريع، تأجير، استثمار, from heavy to light.

Colour palette in vertical blocks: deep blue, coral and charcoal, then slate blue over lavender grey and dusty pink over off-white.
Colour palette
Typography board: GT America Arabic for both scripts, with إدارة، عقارات، مشاريع، تأجير، استثمار on deep blue and Management, Real Estate, Venture, Leasing, Investments on coral, all in white, heavy to light.
Typography

Supportive element

The emblem repeats and links into a lattice. It runs across the letterhead, the banners, the exhibition stand and the tote bag.

Supportive element: the emblem repeated in two rows of three, linked into a lattice, in deep blue on coral.
Supportive element

Applications

Side and front signage, a business card with the emblem cut out, letterhead, banners, an exhibition stand, a tote bag and mugs.

A black square projecting sign with LAKUM in white, fixed to a pale textured wall below a dark roof edge.
Side signage
LAKUM in raised brown letters on a pale building front, above a slatted entrance, with leaf shadows falling across the wall.
Front signage
Lakum business cards held in two hands: a coral card with لكم and the emblem cut out, over a deep blue card with LAKUM in coral and www.lakum.bh.
Business card
A Lakum letterhead with the bilingual wordmark on speckled off-white paper, between two deep blue sheets printed with the coral supportive element, on coral.
Letterhead
Five Lakum banners between stone columns: LAKUM, the emblem and لكم in white on coral, and two deep blue banners reading Real Returns, Real Estate and Land Today, Gain Tomorrow.
Banners
An exhibition stand in deep blue and coral: LAKUM on the back wall, the bilingual wordmark on a tower and a counter, and a screen showing the supportive element.
Exhibition stand
A deep blue tote bag with coral handles, held up by one hand, printed in pale pink with the supportive element, a line about opportunities and the bilingual wordmark.
Tote bag
Two mugs on rough concrete blocks: a deep blue mug with LAKUM in white and a coral handle, and a coral mug with the white emblem and www.lakum.bh.
Mugs